Sarah Moss: ‘I want to write a book whose purpose it is to be beautiful’
Sarah Moss: On Brexit, she says, ‘At first, we were thinking, maybe we can have another referendum, but my friends started to leave very quickly.’ Picture: Massimiliano Donati/Awakening/Getty Images
IT all started on holiday in Scotland. Having been born in Glasgow, and, according to family legend learned to walk on the shores of Lough Lomond, Sarah Moss decided to return there, and experience a beautiful and remote place with her children.
“It mattered enormously to me,” she says, as we discuss her seventh novel, Summerwater. “They had been to Scotland as small children but not later on, and there is a particular place that is remote and difficult to stay in because of a lack of accommodation. I rented a lodge in a holiday park for a week’s hiking and thought it would be lovely.” It wasn’t. There was no Wi-Fi and no phone signal, and it rained relentlessly.
